'I do not think it is very different, but if you think it better to refrain then of course proceeding would be unhelpful regardless.'

"It would be very bad if it interfered with something about my demon-related characteristics. Even if it helped you bring back the Maiar, I'm using demonic conjuration to bring back dead Elves and I'm only halfway done."

'I see.  What are Elves.'

"They're a species of people that lives in the world I came through. They look sort of like humans but taller and prettier."

'How can you resurrect them with conjuration.  Might it expand to humans from the world I encountered.'

"No, sorry, it's a special Elf feature. They have backups."

'It is more urgent to me to obtain souls for people who will otherwise be lost than to resurrect people who are dead but without chance of getting worse.'

"That's understandable. I just can't leave the resurrections half-done, it could take them a long time to find somebody else to finish them up."

'I am informing you of my priorities, not attempting to dictate yours.'

Cam nods. "If you're able to help with the Maiar would their - characteristics change in any way -"

'Not inherently, I do not expect.  If any of them did it might help scale the operation, but bringing them into the project as active participants when they are not aligned with it is worse than leaving them out.  But it would have to be a different system in any case; vampires were designed around physical beings.'

"Okay. I don't know if any of them would be - aligned in the right way. I'm not sure what that means exactly."

'Having similar aesthetics and goals, or acting as if they do.'

"I don't know any of the dead ones at all. Or the living ones well. There's probably stuff in the library about some of them, if that helps."

'I would not expect it to at this stage and would expect it to at a later one.'

"Can you tell me more about the stages there?"

'For now, I will continue consuming media and working on small-scale projects.  Once I have grown strong enough, I will have the capability to teleport to my Earth, and shall do so.  There, I will begin work on ensouling people, and enlist people who are already contributing to help.  This will cause me to become more powerful substantially faster, and once I can divide my attention between multiple bodies, I will return here in one and begin preliminary work on resurrecting your Maiar while others continue there, including determining whether it will be more efficient for me to resurrect them all or construct a system they can work within to do it themselves.'

"- thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, do you have a time estimate - or need anything else from me -"

'You also have been very helpful thus far; I appreciate this likewise.  My estimate for the first stage is not less than several days and not more than several months.  I expect it would be very likely to valuably help if you came with me to my Earth; the risk of another misunderstanding of the magnitude that returned me to my realm of origin the first time concerns me.'  They emulate a head-tilt.  'Although I suppose I also don't know that you yourself won't go on to murder.  I certainly did not predict such conduct from any of the six before it happened.'

"It... takes exceptional circumstances. But I'm nervous about leaving Milliways before I'm done resurrecting all the Elves."

'I am nervous about leaving, making a mistake, being forced back, and not being able to help you from there either.  I think you should be as well, although of course how you weigh these concerns is your choice.  What takes exceptional circumstances.'

"Getting me to murder people takes exceptional circumstances. What kind of mistake do you mean? Forced back where?"

'Back to my realm of origin; if I am weakened enough I cannot subsist outside of it.  This is what happened previously; I am not eager to repeat it.  It seems likely there are many sorts of mistakes, which I do not expect I can predict, that could lead to this outcome.'

"I'm not sure how having me along would make that less likely."

'You're psychologically closer to human, yet in a sufficiently different context that I would hope that if I made a mistake, it would be of a different sort than I would make with them.  It would be my hope that perhaps one side could catch the other, in that event.'  They pause.  'But perhaps consuming enough of their media will gain me more competence there.'